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On 16 January 2015 late in the evening the website of the Ministry of Justice published a statement that the NGO Committee Against Torture had been added to the register of non-profit organizations designated as ‘foreign agents’.

Tanya Lokshina is the Russia program director at Human Rights Watch and Honorary Participant of International Youth Human Rights Movement:
As the crisis in Ukraine escalated this spring, the Kremlin’s vicious crackdown on civil society also escalated. Space for independent civic activity in Russia is shrinking dramatically, but international policymakers and the media have been understandably too distracted to do much about it.
Since early spring, it seems as though every week brings a new pernicious law or legislative proposal.

Earlier this year, the correspondent of Youth Human Rights Movement from Germany Jakob Stürmann interviewed Konstantin Baranov, member of the Coordination Council of the International Youth Human Rights Movement. They discussed so called “law against homosexual propaganda” and the overall situation of LGBT in Russia.

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Oleg Sentsov, Olexander Kolchenko, Hennadiy Afanasiev and Oleksiy Chyrniy have been held in Russian jails for two years already under fabricated charges of ‘terrorism’. We consider it being necessary to express solidarity with those who are persecuted due to their pro-Ukrainian views, civic stand and desire for freedom in Russia-annexed Crimea.

Helsinki Committee of Armenia has published “Human Rights in Armenia 2014” Annual Report. The report reflects on the Right to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, Political Persecutions, Freedom of Conscience and Religion, The Rights of the Child, Protection of Labor Rights.

«We have a few questions for you,» a border guard told Sinaver Kadyrov, a Crimean Tatar activist, at the Armyansk checkpoint in northern Crimea on Jan. 23. Kadyrov was on his way to Kherson, in southern Ukraine, to fly to Turkey for medical treatment. It was the beginning of an ordeal that ended with a local court expelling him from Crimea, his home of almost 25 years.

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Svetlana Gannushkina was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Svetlana Gannushkina is a chairman of "Civil assistance" committee and a member of the Council of "Memorial" human rights center became one of the competitors for Nobel Peace Prize.

Gannushkina was suggested as a candidate by Erna Solberg, the minister of municipal self-government of Norway.

Svetlana herself, as well as her colleagues, hopes that this event would draw additional public attention to Russian human rights organizations activities and would help, at least indirectly, in changing public attitude towards human rights community in a positive way.

Svetlana Gannushkina is a head of "Memorial" human rights center program "Protection of rights of forced migrants", which embodies "The Migration and Law" network, created for free legal counseling of migrants in many regions of Russia. Lawyers of the Network render advisory services for migrants, protect their rights at the court and work on conformation of local legal acts with federal legislation and the Constitution of Russia. Volunteers of "Memorial" are engaged in social adaptation of children of refugees and migrants, and hold classes to train children for school enrollment.

As a member of the Expert Council at the Ombudsman in the Russian Federation, Svetlana participates in drafting legislation that involves rights of refugees or internally displaced persons and issues regular reports on migrants situation. Svetlana Gannushkina gives vast amount of her time to promotion and restoration of Human Rights in Russia.

We congratulate Svetlana Gannushkina on her nomination for Nobel Peace Prize!

Let us remind to everybody, that in 2009 Svetlana Gannushkina became a Honorary participant of Youth Human Rights Movement. And therefore we can't help but be happy with the fact that our youth have an example to follow, to learn from and to pursue :).